Media Bloggy Blog McBloggerson
posted by on February 26 at 17:39 PM
I don’t really read a lot of other music blogs, unless you count this one. Pretty much WFMU’s Beware of the Blog and that’s it. But every so often I go over to Grandy’s desk and borrow CDs to try and figure out what Stereogum or whatever thinks is cool. I figure I’ll be self-indulgent and add my unwanted opinion.
Here’s the three I investigated today.
Dengue Fever-Venus on Earth
Indie rock interpretation of Jan Pahechaan Ho. Why would you make lounge music with no horns? This record sounds like the sound track to a really bad romantic thriller starring Sharon Stone somewhere in Asia. This plays during the scene in which she is being creepy to an Asian playboy in a hotel bar that has a taxidermied elephant in it.
Evangelista (Carla Bozulich)—Hello, Voyager
I couldn’t find a pic of the cover, sorry. But you should look at it, it’s pretty cool.
Carla Bozulich rides the crazy train, but I’m pretty into it. I can tell she’s really into Diamanda Galas and Quix*o*tic, but I can’t really wrap my head around anything else about it yet. Anyone have any peyote to lend me? I need to find understanding.
Kate Nash—Foundations
Kind of a weird thought, but I find her accent a little over-emphasized. I mean, I know it’s real and whatevs, but I feel like she’s saying, “Oi’m Brit-ish and it droIves me MEN-TAWL! But Oi’m bloody adorable, don’tcha fink?” This is just straight modern girl pop music and it’s got nothing else. It’s so easy and so accessible and so bright and so repetitive that you can ignore it just as easily as you can love it. Feist, Lily Allen (at least she’s kind of a brat, right?), blah blah blah.
All done! I’ll go back to being ignorant now!
Carla at Neumo's was one of my favorite shows last year (or maybe it was 2006). That whole album is pretty mind blowing. She used to date Nels Cline. And of course she was in the Geraldine Fibbers. The Low cover on that album (Pissing) is one of my favorite cover songs. She also did a whole album cover of Willie Nelson's Red Headed Stranger.
She's awesome.
Re: Dengue Fever.
That's a pretty good description. When they started playing around here a lot a couple years ago, I checked them out as they were (once again) erroneously billed as "psychedelic". I should really know better that to not only distrust that description, but worry about someone that would actually use it.
Needless to say, they were a lot less "psych", and a helluva lot more HIT EXPLOSION than I bargained for.
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